Musicals make me cry

[frostfox]

West Side Story. I don't like the film version of America as much as the stage version - my stage version is older than the flim. Anita is my favourite part - A boy like that, to kill your brother, love the duet with Maria.

The King and I (when his hand falls back on the bed and only the Prime Minister notices because they are all listening to the crown prince, in fact, even thinking about it makes me misty eyed, must be the slash fan in me... possibly my favourite scene in any musical). Yule Brynner proves bald men are sexy, that man was sex on a stick.

Camalot ('Run, my boy. Run! Oh, sob)

Umberellas of Cherbourg; my Mum's favourite, beautiful and so sad, it's years since I've seen it, might try to get it for her birthday. If it takes forever I will wait for you.

JC Superstar; which is an odd one for someone who's been a pagan since she was 11. I'd love to have seen the stage version with Amy and Emily, the two singers who are the Indigo Girls as Judas and Jesus - and their web page has a Jamie Hernandez picture, which is just so *right* I always think of them as Hernandez characters! I was never quite as moved after the Python's had finished with it. Whistles.

Sort of a musical - The Last Unicorn; not the end this time, but when Molly berates the Unicorn for coming too late, might go and re-read the book now...

And let's not forget M.Butterfly and Carmen and La Boheme.

But I very, very rarely cry at non musical films, I'm trying to think of the last film I cried at, it's musicals which get me. In fact, it's music which seems to go straight to my hind brain, I've been known to get misty when playing Two Out of Three Aint Bad (and Whistle Down the Wind makes me cry for totally different reasons...)

Of course, my favourite doesn't make me cry. FF goes all dreamy at the thought of Tim Curry in fishnets. I am that shallow.

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[zanda-myrande.livejournal.com]

I'm very fond of the film version of JCS. To me its connection with Christianity is only superficial--it's a ritual of some kind, using Christian iconography but far deeper than that. ("Jesus" does not get off the bus, neither does he get on. They arrive: they somehow communally "generate" this person: they sacrifice him: they leave, having effected some kind of change in themselves. What, and why, we are left to guess.) I don't know whether the stage version would work as well in that way for me...

But I like the idea of both main parts being played as female...

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

I have a stage version of JCS from 2000 with Rik Mayall and Glen Carter which is the slashiest version of the deciples I've ever seen.
I am so not going to heaven.

Whistles innocently.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

I much prefer stage versions of musicals to the movies :-)

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

I like both, there is a great buzz with a live show but I can throw a dvd on anytime.
I like musicals in general and music in dramas, the musical Buffy episode is the only Buffy DVD I have.

Which reminds me, I bought Streets of Fire on dvd ages ago and haven't watched it yet, might do that tonight. Need to get Warriors on dvd too at some point.

[purpletigron.livejournal.com]

I find the films to be too ... stiff and formal. The Buffy musical was in the right spirit :-)

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

The last time I cried at a movie was last Thursday at Finding Neverland. I cry at movies a lot. More than you do probably. During on episode of Buffy I cried through the whole thing. I'd probably cry more outside my home and dark theaters if our culture didn't have a serrious problem with that in men.

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

I think the only time a tv show made me cry was What You Leave Behind.
They split up Miles and Julian.
Bastards.

Real life programmes sometimes do it, shots of Challenger or Neil Armstrong are top of the list. Melencholy and nostalgic rather than sad though.

But I still can't ever listen to Drive by The Cars.

[mishalak.livejournal.com]

So is What You Leave Behind something I should be seaking out then?

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

It was the last episode of Deep Space 9, sorry, should have made that clearer.

So you would have to sit through seven seasons of Trek of varying qualities (when it was good it was very, very good...)

But I was very fond of DS9

something to do with getting older?

[eleyan.livejournal.com]

I find I snivel at the drop of an elf, much more than I ever used to. And books, just about any drivel will set me off these days.
Must be the menopause.

Who doesn't go all dreamy at the thought of Tim Curry in fishnets?

[davidschroth.livejournal.com]

ALthough it resulted in some extreme cognitive dissonance while watching Kinsey...

Re: Who doesn't go all dreamy at the thought of Tim Curry in fishnets?

[frostfox.livejournal.com]

I took Jack Cohen (reproductive biologist, consultant to many an author and fan) to see RHPS for the first time, he said it restored his faith in human sexuality to see all those straight young men lusting after Frank.

[smofbabe.livejournal.com]

I liked the filmed stage production of JC that I saw, but the actual movie made me cringe: lots of screaming rock and roll, not enough characterization and song delivery. The musical itself holds up remarkably well, I think.

I'm hugely fond of PIPPIN, GODSPELL, and 1776, myself, not to mention ANNIE GET YOUR GUN.

Ah, Musicals...

[pink-sweater-uk.livejournal.com]

A few more:

Little Shop Of Horrors (either the more downbeat stage version or the screen version). I love this one dearly - the nerd as genuinely courageous hero, the push-up bra'd brassy but loving heroine, a trio of sassy singers straight out of West Side Story by way of the Shirelles, the most vile dentist ever ("I thrill when I drill a bicuspid! - It's swell though they tell me I'm mad"), and an extra-terrestrial threat by exotic plant. What's not to like?

The Wizard Of Oz. It's a MUSICAL, okay? Not much dancing, but the songs are superb. Bert Lahr belting out "If I Were King Of The Forest" as his comapnions mockingly but affectionately drape him in improvised kingly regalia is one of my abiding "makes me laugh and also feel sappy at once - no mean achievement" film moments. And of course, "Over The Rainbow" carries a wallop that's still potent over 65 years later.

And "Singin' In The Rain". Just for two sequences in particular: the title number (of course...), and Donald O'Connor's amazing athleticism and agility in "Make 'Em Laugh". I never believed that bit about someone being able to run up walls and then flip back over, and then blow me down he only bloody goes and does it repeatedly...